Well yes. State parties are the ones who come up with state registration days. The same party may be very different in different states. There are some states where party membership is more fluid and some, like New York, where it is considered far more important.
The national party may have different ideas, but it is the state party that determines this and they employ that view upon the state governments that they control.
The superdelegates are ruining it for Sanders. Once again, he won the primary, but ended up with fewer delegates from its state than Clinton.
The regular delegates are ruining it for him too. Once again he failed to win by the margins nessesary.
While it may offer you comfort to blame anyone other than Sanders, the bottom line is the super delegates don’t mater even if every delegate was awarded proportionally he’d still lose.
Maybe he can pull out a 60 point victory in California…
Looks like he’s going to need more like a 125-point victory.
boffking, Sanders wanted to present himself as an outsider so it wasn’t in his interest to court superdelegates: insurgents don’t cozy up to the establishment. It was a reasonable strategy to get him on the map. Unfortunately for him it’s difficult to make the argument that they should support him now, given his lack of attention (or outright hostility) to them then.
Regardless, the rules were set up well ahead of time. To win, as others have pointed out, it’s a good idea to win both pledged delegates and supers. Two different voting pools, two different strategies. It’s tough to win if you can’t win a majority of either, and tougher still if you do nothing to encourage one of those pools to vote for you at all.